TY - CHAP
T1 - Arab booksellers and bookshops in the age of printing, 1850-1914
AU - Ayalon, Ami
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Geoffrey Roper 2013. All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/3/2
Y1 - 2017/3/2
N2 - The emergence of massive printing in the Arab Middle East in the nineteenth century entailed a multiple set of changes. As well as the production of written texts in unprecedented quantities and the rise of a big reading public, that historic shift also gave birth to a range of diffusion channels-from bookshops to public libraries and from newspaper agents to reading clubs-which carried the printed works to their audiences. This article examines a small section of this scene: the growth, spreading and changing characteristics of book dealerships and bookshops in the Arab Ottoman provinces during the formative half-century prior to World War I. Exploring this mechanism casts light on the nature and pace of printing assimilation in the region, projecting it as a rather dramatic makeover.
AB - The emergence of massive printing in the Arab Middle East in the nineteenth century entailed a multiple set of changes. As well as the production of written texts in unprecedented quantities and the rise of a big reading public, that historic shift also gave birth to a range of diffusion channels-from bookshops to public libraries and from newspaper agents to reading clubs-which carried the printed works to their audiences. This article examines a small section of this scene: the growth, spreading and changing characteristics of book dealerships and bookshops in the Arab Ottoman provinces during the formative half-century prior to World War I. Exploring this mechanism casts light on the nature and pace of printing assimilation in the region, projecting it as a rather dramatic makeover.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85061867891&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9781315239187
DO - 10.4324/9781315239187
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AN - SCOPUS:85061867891
SN - 9781409433101
SP - 277
EP - 297
BT - The History of the Book in the Middle East
PB - Taylor and Francis
ER -